and we see this not only in farm tokens but in transportation tokens tax tokens of the mid-century, and have been utilized to sort of control who was paying for what. i have several farm tokens in my own collection. i have never in my life seen this many tokens in one place. you've never actually counted how many tokens are here. guest: no, no idea. appraiser: there's certainly several hundred of a variety of denominations, sizes, and styles. do you have any idea of its value? guest: i really don't. i paid $500 for it, but... appraiser: not an insignificant sum. guest: no, but i had purchased one here, one there, but never had i seen anything with the original box. so i was willing to do that. appraiser: it's the box and the number of tokens and the varieties that are here that make it so interesting, as well as the tie back into the pasadena part of maryland. and you're family also farms in that area? guest: they did, yes. appraiser: talking with some of the other folks at my table we feel that there's probably between 250 and 300 tokens here, and sort of given the collection i would e